Perl. This site isn’t terrible, and degrades well enough without CSS enabled, but it still uses tables for layout and is built for the tiniest of resolutions. I think updating the underlying code (no tables), fixing some of their type, wrapping the page content in a centered container and making the whole site even 100 px wider would help. I doubt they’re going to change the camel. Of these three possibilities, I’m leaning toward this.

Apache/. I think the problem with a lot of open source sites is that they embrace “default” styling (blue underlined links, bulleted lists, white background), probably to show how “geek” they are. Apache’s main page is a good example of this, but some of the sub-projects are pretty decent. It’d be interesting, and probably beyond the scope of what could be accomplished in this class, to apply one identity across all of the apache sub-projects. Realistically though, updating the main Apache page or one of the more horrible sub-project pages would be a possibility.

Linux. Here’s another gem. This page is littered with mid-90s web weirdness. Where are these colors coming from? Check out the random centering and mixed bold/serif/sans. The possibility of getting them to change it is slim to none, but… maybe.

I’ve gone through part of the Django tutorial. I installed the latest copy of Django, Python, and MySQL on my desktop (windows environment) and followed the tutorial through the first three sections. I’ve started to become familiar with the data models and the admin interface.

At the moment I am liking Django’s admin interface that is created by default a little bit more than the scaffolding that can be used with Ruby on Rails. As far as compairing Ruby and Python I still don’t know enough about either language to make a decision.

More to come.

General cPanel Hosting FAQ 

Q. Could someone tell me how i can disable open_basedir in php.ini. For one of my customers for there site .

Ans: Don’t edit it in PHP.ini - log into WHM, security center, openbase protection, tick your customer’s username.

Q. Can the Cpanel and FTP passwords be different? This is important as I want to give clients access to Cpanel but not to FTP

Ans: If you have access to cPanel you have access to the full account via file manager, and you also have the ability to make new FTP accounts. cPanel is the mother of all access in a sense. You can give access to FTP and NOT cPanel by setting up a custom FTP account, but it doesn’t really work the other way around. Technically it’s possible if you disabled all of the features via WHM, but that would defeat the purpose of cPanel really.

Q. I am new to cpanel web hosting and I am wanting to know if i can set up my site using Dreamweaver CS3? How do i edit other pages in my website. I found out how to edit my home page but cannot find other pages within my site. Where would these be located?

Ans: You can setup a Site within Dreamweaver using ftp and be sure to set the document root to public_html within the site’s ftp settings in Dreamweaver.

Q. I have problems with the bandwidth of my cpanel, I want to know whether the bandwidth is reset monthly ?

Ans: With regards to the bandwidth quotas for account, yes, bandwidth used is reset to 0 at the beginning of a month.

Q. How can I change the theme of a CPANEL for any user from backend. Which all files do I need to edit ?

Ans: From WHM go to modify an account area.

Q. I am currently running CPanel under a VPS and would like to run DNS only on my main server (so that if the cpanel server goes down I still have the dns running). I am wondering tho, is DNS Only free to use if you have a Cpanel VPS licence on another server. And also, how tightly does DNS only integrate with the OS. I mean, if I want to remove it later is it possible or would I be looking at a rebuild.

Ans: DNSonly is completely free, and you can install it on either a dedicated server or a virtual  private servers.

Q. Is it easy to uninstall at a later date or does it integrate as tightly with the OS as the full Cpanel does (i.e. when you want to uninstall CPANEL they recommend you just rebuild the OS, i would prefer not to do that if I want to uninstall DNS only at a later date).

Ans: I’d suggest if you want DNS only, then set it up on a VPS on the server, that way if you don’t want it, then you just delete the VPS.

Q. Is there a way to setup an addition/custom admin user with equivalent rights as root?

Ans: You can setup a “Master Reseller” account and give him full rights for most things.